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Originally Posted by Kims Robot
It is probably very hard to sit on the outside and see very little released to the public, but a lot of what is being done is working through tedious and annoying bugs... and what do you care about the bugs if they are going to be gone before you get there?
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Very well said, and YES it is difficult for me and many eager teams to sit by and watch.
Most open source models still publish a bug report to inform the other users of their development.
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Originally Posted by Kims Robot
Could there be more documentation released? Likely true, but there are some rules FIRST imposes, and there are the hours in the day limits (making something readable/useful for others is much harder than just posting up what you have done at the end of the day).
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The fact that FIRST imposes rules makes be very uneasy.... but that's another story.
I agree that documentation is very difficult, I just wish the Beta Organizers would have encouraged more team created tutorials. The community really needs Beta teams to put proper time into creating tutorials. The Java WPI page is a good clean web page tutorial, hopefully NI takes notes and organizes their pages into one cohesive page.
Here's my biased example of tutorials.
http://mentorsearch.us/node/3
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Originally Posted by Kims Robot
1511 had proposed a wiki-type setup for the 2008 Beta, but I think a lot of that was knocked down by FIRST trying to keep things under wraps.
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"Knocked down by FIRST" sounds very discouraging for a community that should be encouraging creative ideas. I hope that you bring back your wiki idea because it sounds great !
Thanks for taking the time to talk about this important issue.